October 17, 1919

1) Supply 30,000 uniforms.

2) Move the entire V Army to the south immediately, not after Ishim (since the Tobol River is considerably larger and wider than the Ishim River, and the length of the front is reduced insignificantly upon transition to the Ishim River).

3) Convert the offensive on Ishim into a demonstration and withdraw (preparing this in the **shortest** timeframe) to the Tobol River. Instruct the Commander-in-Chief to discuss my proposals 1–3.

Lenin

# TELEGRAM TO THE PETROGRAD SOVIET
October 20, 1919

Have measures been taken to establish firm radio communication between Kharlamov's group and the headquarters of the VII Army? Is this communication sufficiently ensured? The same for all other groups. If our assistance is needed, telephone.

Lenin

# TELEGRAM TO GUBERNATORIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES, REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEES, AND GUBERNATORIAL FOOD COMMITTEES
October 20, 1919

The just-concluded campaign for the formation and dispatch of worker detachments for harvest work has clearly revealed that this measure of first-rate state importance proceeded in a disorganized fashion, above all owing to the absence among local organs of the People's Commissariat of Food and other Soviet organs involved in organizing these works of preliminary accounting of the necessary number of worker hands, blanket demands for them from gubernatorial organs, and the absence of information at the district Soviet organs regarding the dispatch of harvest detachments. Demands for worker hands were presented by the gubernatorial centers without consultation of the district or...